"Wyle creates Ben as the playful idealized man:
Mensa member; looks like Frankie Avalon; can fight like a pit bull; has
a steady relationship with the beautiful Rebecca while tossing off adversaries
with stumbling panache and outwitting the evil . . ."

— Shelley Glodowski, Midwest Review
on Medical School Is Murder

BEN & REBECCA'S FIRST FIVE ADVENTURES

("Straightforward" medical and scientific projects entangle them in mystery
and intrigue in the exotic locations.)

(Boxed CD set, playable on your home, portable or car CD player and on your computer)

Mystery, adventure and intrigue in the Bahamas

Bahamas West End Is Murder

Fifth Book in the Ben Candidi Series

As vacationing Ben Candidi and Rebecca Levis sail through International
Waters toward Grand Bahama Island, they receive a strange welcome — a sinking
cabin cruiser with a dead man at the helm. Ben knows how to patch bullet
holes below the waterline and Rebecca knows how to estimate time of death.
And they agree that the West End marina is the right place to bring the
body. To avoid trouble, they play it dumb and treat the cocaine-smuggling
marina tenants as the divers and sport fishermen they are pretending to
be. Unfortunately, the mailbox corporation in Miami that owns the yacht
ignores Ben's $100,000 salvage claim — and the Bahamian police won't let
him move the yacht to Florida. The harder Ben and Rebecca press their claim,
the more sinister West End becomes. Should they cut their losses and run?
Or is it too late already?

Organized criminal activity at a big-city medical center?

Medical School is Murder

Third Novel in the Ben Candidi Series

A new kind of medical thriller!

THE STORY:

When Rebecca said it was a great opportunity,
Ben had to agree. But with Rebecca in the middle of her training program,
Ben's opportunity will mean separation for six months.

Ben leaves his physician soul mate in
Washington, DC, and returns to Miami's Bryan Medical School to take over
a dead scientist's laboratory and two-year grant. And when he is offered
$20,000 to write the biography prescribed in eccentric Dr. Peterson's will,
Ben accepts that opportunity, too.

Collecting humorous anecdotes about the
old bachelor and WW-II hero is simple, but making sense of his after-hours
"crusades for science and reason" is much harder for Ben. Dr. Peterson
made many enemies when he spoke out on public corruption, the right to
die, abortion, animal experimentation, human cloning and meat irradiation.

And how should Ben deal with rumors that
Dr. Peterson had falsified his lab data on dietary supplements? Should Ben
heed anonymous warnings to stop looking for substance in Dr. Peterson's crusades?
Was last night's burglary just another random act of Miami violence?

Can Ben write off the poorly documented
crusades as the delusions of an attention-starved old man? Or was it something
other than a heart attack that left Old Pete floating in the canal by Bryan
Medical School?

While Rebecca is gone, working
in a Jamaican hospital, Ben Candidi (Ph.D.-to-be) is offered a chance to
earn $24,000 for a four-day consulting job. Boston venture capitalist Dr.
Brian Broadmoore needs to know whether BIOTECH Florida, Inc. is worth buying
for $20 million. The Miami company has three candidate drugs that shrink
tumors with amazing speed. But BIOTECH's inventor is amazingly defensive
about his patents. BIOTECH's President is blustering and Chief Scientist
Cheryl North is playing mind games. And Dr. Broadmoore is surprising quiet.

And when Ben walks into the inventor's
office to find him dead — cold and clammy — from no apparent cause, he knows
it had to be murder. But how and why? Soon Ben is crawling in a web of intrigue.
He shakes hard once and it ensnares Rebecca. He shakes hard twice and he's
fighting for his life.

Ben's first adventure begins when he quits his job as CSI lab technician
to enroll in a Ph.D. program in pharmacology.

Pharmacology Is Murder

First Book in the Ben Candidi Series

Now Ben's ex-boss is asking him to investigate his professors as
murder suspects!

What the Reviewers Said:

“First-time novelist Dirk Wyle skillfully pairs the
tone of the hard-boiled mystery with the intricate scientific detail common
to the medical thriller. The result is an excellent whodunit. . .
. a first-class mystery that combines elements of Michael Crichton, Patricia
Cornwell, and even Edna Buchanan.”

— Booklist Mystery Showcase
American Library Association

"... one fine debut mystery, combining scientific method with a quirky,
humanistic scientist/detective and resulting in the perfect compound ... inventive,
intriguing, and, most importantly, evocatively drawn. If you like a puzzle,
you'll love this one."

Talented but professionally dead-ended,
Ben Candidi is almost grateful when Chief Medical Examiner Westley fires
him "for his own good." Dr. Westley persuades Ben to enter the pharmacology
Ph.D. program at nearby Bryan Medical School — and to conduct an undercover
investigation. Dr. Westley believes it was murder-by-professor, using a
poison that left no trace. But with a half-dozen suspect profs, and with
hundreds of their toxins and laboratory drugs to choose from, Ben finds
the assignment next to impossible — until he meets a medical student named
Rebecca Levis.

Dirk's writing affiliations include
membership in the Mystery Writers of America with service on its judging
committees for the Edgar Allen Poe Awards. He received the Icon Award from
the South Florida Writers organization. He appears frequently at national
literary events and does bookstore readings across the country.